Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “the trial court properly held that the aggravated assault conviction merged with that for voluntary manslaughter”
• concluding that “the trial court properly held that the aggravated assault conviction merged with that for voluntary manslaughter”
• setting forth the three governmental abuses against which the bar against double jeopardy was designed to protect
• “The State, of course, remains free to retry [the appellant] on the voluntary manslaughter charge inasmuch as her jeopardy for that charge did not end.”
• “The State, of course, remains free to retry [the appellant] on the voluntary manslaughter charge inasmuch as her jeopardy for that charge did not end.”
• a verdict of acquittal is a bar to a subsequent prosecution for the same offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Dugger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 30×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-20· cited 30×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 27×
• Muckle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-01-26· cited 17×
• Harrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 15×
• Medina v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 9×
• Taylor v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 6×
• Roesser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13· cited 6×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-16· cited 5×
• McElrath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 3×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-19· cited 2×
• State v. Street
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2023-12-05· cited 2×
• McCabe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-21· cited 1×
• Hassard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-07· cited 1×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-01-26
• REDINBURG v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-04-06
• State of West Virginia v. Robert Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-10-30
• Devin Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23
• Tucker Hamlette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-14
• Christopher Roesser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
• Blackledge v. Perry
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-20· cited 1,945×
• United States v. Ball
  Supreme Court· 1896-05-25· cited 1,376×
• Price v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-15· cited 784×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Hooten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-15· cited 59×
• Keener v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-11-03· cited 47×
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-08· cited 44×
• Flores v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 42×
• Perkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 37×
• Redd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-04· cited 31×
• Addison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-08· cited 30×
• Dryden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 19×
• Gerisch v. Meadows
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 14×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-27· cited 12×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-07-07· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-06· cited 6×